Photography
In today’s lecture with Paul we looked at a variety of photobooks after a lengthy discussion on the different ways they are constructed and presented by their makers. Whatever the format, the book is essentially a narrative by the photographer. We have previously looked at ‘Rays a laugh’ by Richard Billingham who tells the story […]
Continue ReadingWell…here we all are again! Full of hope and excitement in a brand new year and our second semester. On Thursday we gathered together with Rick, Kate and Becky and eagerly awaited our instructions for our new task! The pep talk gives us a real boost, we feel as though we can take on the […]
Continue ReadingAs a novice in the deep and meaningful artistic areas of photography, I hope I will be forgiven for my humble opinion of some of the diaristic/intimate life photography works that we have so far observed. I often feel that for some, making images of their lives are an indulgent pastime. A sticking-up of two […]
Continue ReadingWhen we take a photograph we keep an image of that moment, it may be something for us to remember personally, or it may be captured to show someone else, friends, relatives work colleagues, or it might be to present as an image that means something has to change? These moments can still be shared […]
Continue ReadingSebastiao Salgado is described as a social documentary photographer and photojournalist. Born in Brazil but now living in Paris, France he studied economics and became a professional photographer in 1973. Although he is essentially described as a ‘social documentary photographer’ his work has progressed into bringing ecological and economical awareness of a variety of landscapes […]
Continue ReadingFrom our Lecture today there is a quote From: Looking at War: Photography’s View of Devastation and Death. New Yorker Magazine Dec 9th 2002 ‘ the problem of our reliance on images and especially photographic images is not that “people remember through photographs but that they remember only the photographs … that the photographic image […]
Continue ReadingStill Life: a work of art that shows inanimate objects from the natural or man-made world. Memento Mori: Latin – ‘Remember you must die’ Vanitas: Latin -‘for vanity, reminding us that vanity and material possessions do not preclude us from death’. Todays lecture talked about how images, even seemingly simple ones, can have much deeper meanings. […]
Continue Reading“the art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques.” ” visual rhetoric is the use of visual images to communicate meaning.” Today I feel like I’m at the point in the Lectures where I need some plain English…unfortunately that’s not happening! (no disrespect is directed towards my […]
Continue ReadingTodays lecture was about seeing images that are not a ‘snapshot’ or ‘captured’ image but rather a constructed or choreographed image sometimes giving the viewer a different interpretation of fine art and culture. We looked at quite a few artists. Gregory Crewdson is one of my personal favourites and a fabulous creator of epic […]
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